On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 08:46, Oscar Benjamin via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > I don't know much about SSL and related networking things especially > on Windows. I would be surprised if pip on old Python can't install > from current PyPI though. I imagine that something strange has > happened like a new version of pip running on an old version of Python > or old Python on new OS (or old PyCharm...). > > There is no problem using Python 2.7 with pip and PyPI on this Linux > machine but I guess it has a newer SSL library provided by the OS:
Sadly, I would NOT be surprised if this is indeed a problem on Windows. You're exactly right - on Linux, it can use a newer SSL library from the OS. Of course, this does assume that you've updated your OS, which is far from a guarantee, but since this has security implications there's a good chance you can update it while retaining a legacy system. On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 08:51, Greg Ewing via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > On 13/06/24 10:09 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > > So if anyone > > actually does need to use pip with Python 2.7, they probably need to > > set up a local server > > You should also be able to download a .tar.gz from PyPI and use pip > to install that. Although you'll have to track down the dependencies > yourself in that case. Also a possibility; in my opinion, losing dependency management is too big a cost, so I would be inclined to set up a local server. But then, I would be using a newer SSL library and not have the problem in the first place. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
